Re: [Openstack-operators] What are people using for configuration management? Puppet? Chef? Other?

2015-07-30 Thread Caius Howcroft
We have been heavy users of chef and its okay. Personally I like using ansible for config management for openstack. There are many reasons for this, but perhaps one that is very specific to openstack is that ansible is agnostic about choice the choice of language which modules are written in (b

Re: [Openstack-operators] Ceph backed 'boot from volume' downloading image

2015-07-29 Thread Caius Howcroft
on = 2, cinder won't be able to do the clone. See > > http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/#configure-openstack-to-use-ceph > > for more details. > > Josh > > > On 07/29/2015 07:36 AM, Caius Howcroft wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We (bloomb

[Openstack-operators] Ceph backed 'boot from volume' downloading image

2015-07-29 Thread Caius Howcroft
go directly via rbd clone, we created a patch and tested and it seems to work just fine (and an order of magnitude faster) https://github.com/bloomberg/chef-bcpc/pull/742 So, the question is: what are other ceph backed installations doing ? Caius -- Caius Howcroft @caiushowcroft http

[Openstack-operators] over commit ratios

2015-04-21 Thread Caius Howcroft
#x27;nova']['reserved_host_memory_mb'] = 1024 # often larger default['bcpc']['nova']['cpu_allocation_ratio'] = 2.0 Caius -- Caius Howcroft @caiushowcroft http://www.linkedin.com/in/caius ___ OpenStack-operato

Re: [Openstack-operators] Example configs

2015-03-16 Thread Caius Howcroft
life switching keys > and passwords :) > > > -Jon > > ___ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators -- Caius Howcr

[Openstack-operators] Migrating keystone from MySQL to LDAP

2015-03-02 Thread Caius Howcroft
Hi, We are in the process of migrating off MySQL backend for keystone and into LDAP. Just wondering if anyone ad any experience with this? I'm going to have to keep all the id's the same (or else go in and change project ids etc in things like cinder db). Looks like keystone API doesn't allow me t